From: Axel Etzold <AEtzold@...>
Date: 2007-06-27T23:50:53+09:00
Subject: Re: RegExp & File read help

Hi Don,  

> I am sure there is probably a  
> way to do this using an xml parsing library, but I thought it might  
> be just as easy to do so with regular expressions.

Hpricot is a good choice.
> 
> Where I am getting stuck is in the next code fragment, in which I am  
> testing each line to see if there is a match. There should be as the  
> string I used above for testing was pulled directly from one line of  
> the file. Unfortunately, I get an error and no -matches.
> 
> _________
> regexp = Regexp.new(/<Font-family codeSet=\"\w*\" fontId=\"\d*\">(\w*) 

In the regexp, you need to escape the minus sign also, otherwise,
it is interpreted as a range of signs, i.e. f-t =['f','g',...,'t']

> regexp = Regexp.new(/<Font\-family codeSet=\"\w*\" fontId=\"\d*\">(\w*) 
> <\/Font\-family>/m)

Best regards,

Axel 
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